Chiefs HOFer Deron Cherry Approves Of Eric Berry Pick

by Joel Thorman on May 11, 2010 7:22 PM CDT in 2010 Kansas City Chiefs Draft

Well, Deron Cherry approves of Chiefs fifth pick Eric Berry.

Cherry of course is arguably the best safety to ever lace 'em up for the Chiefs.

"If you can get a quality player like Berry is, and shore up that part of your defensive game with a guy that's a playmaker...I like the pick," Cherry told Soren Petro on 810 WHB this morning. "I think it was a smart pick for the Chiefs. I think this is a guy that could potentially be in the league for 10 or 12 years."

While there are some similarities in their game, Berry and Cherry also have a lot of differences. Cherry wasn't a top five pick. He was undrafted. He wasn't winning national awards in college. He didn't make $50 million and sign with Adidas.

Despite those differences, Cherry says football is football.

"The game is still the same," he said. "It boils down to fundamentals. Yeah there are good athletes but there were good athletes when we were playing. It's all relative."

If Berry turns out to be anything like Cherry, then it will be a tremendous success.

Six Pro Bowls, three-time first team All-Pro and a Man of the Year award? I think the Chiefs would take that.

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Cherry and Berry...

Berry will fit right in.

Proud resident of Kansas City MO

by TigerChief on May 11, 2010 7:24 PM CDT reply actions

Cherry likes the Berry pick?!

Cherry and Berry were picked by the Chiefs?! GET IT?!

Please start the season already! I want to see Berry in action!

Other Arenas wish they could be like Arrowhead Stadium as it prepares to turn a new Page on Chiefs legacy. Rivals think they are going to be fine on a island of Flowers, but when they get hit by what feels like a Carr, they'll never be able to eat a Berry ever again.

by worc on May 11, 2010 7:24 PM CDT reply actions

That joke was hard to watch.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain

by MJU-57 on May 11, 2010 7:26 PM CDT up reply actions

what the feazy?

by imur#1fan on May 12, 2010 1:46 AM CDT up reply actions

Deron...The Best Free Agent Story...even better than *Priest.

Also a very, very nice guy who should get HOF consideration. Not bad for a FA punter huh?

*I do have Priest as the Chiefs ALL -TIME Best Offensive player however he was at least a PT starter at Texas. Deron out of Rutgers trying out to punt – earns 6 Pro Bowls….Ridiculous…you couldn’t make it up!

since63

by since63 on May 11, 2010 7:43 PM CDT reply actions

Cherry was one of my all time favorite Chiefs...

This punter turned safety went on to do great things for the Chiefs. Regarded as one of the finest free safeties to have ever played the game, he was a six-time Pro Bowl selection, starting in five of them in his 11 years with the Chiefs. Over the years he set or tied several records and received many awards, including most interceptions in a game (4) and American Football Conference (AFC) Defensive Player of the Year.

He’s quoted as saying his favorite award was the Byron R. ‘Whizzer’ White Humanitarian Award presented to him by the NFL Players Association. The annual award is the NFL Players’ Association’s highest honor and is presented to the player who best exemplifies the qualities of Byron White, a former U.S. Supreme Court justice and NFL player who distinguished himself through athleticism, education, and community service.

by KCFanatic on May 12, 2010 9:05 AM CDT up reply actions

Cherry Berry is goooooooooood Kool Aid.

by BCRavenJHawkfan on May 11, 2010 8:26 PM CDT reply actions

Chiefs like them some fruit

Can we be the AFC West Champions in 2010. You better believe it
The Chiefs offence will EXPLODE in 2010

by trentchiefsfan on May 11, 2010 8:37 PM CDT reply actions

lets just add

superbowl champion to the list of accomplishments and ill b happy

by dgoddard on May 11, 2010 8:58 PM CDT reply actions

Yeah, but Kevin Ross broke faces

PARADEBULATE!

by Official Arrowhead Pride Parade on May 11, 2010 9:28 PM CDT reply actions

Yeah. Kevin Ross

I never saw a guy, pound for pound, who hit people harder than Kevin Ross. I winced, even when he hit a Raider. However, he was mostly a cornerback for the Chiefs. He did play some safety, but I remember him as a CB. He and Albert Lewis made a phenomenal CB duo for many years. The secondary was the strength of the team, even in the leanest years. The names are mind boggling. Gary Barbaro, Deron Cherry, Gary Green, Emmitt Thomas, Lloyd Burress. It seems like every one of them were fast, smart, shut down guys who were terrifying against the running game, as well. But Deron Cherry was the ultimate ball hawk. He read the QB’s eyes and knew exactly where the ball was going. As often as not, he was the guy who got the ball in front of the receiver.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

- Groucho Marx

by Bilyous on May 12, 2010 1:03 AM CDT up reply actions

True Dat...

Damn I miss those days. I was gonna mention The Rock, but you beat me to the punch. I remember Cherry and not only was he the best to lace ‘em up for the Chiefs, he was one of the best period. And yeah, the tandem of Ross and Lewis was unbelievable. I am hopeful that Carr can step up his game so that Flowers/Carr becomes today’s Ross/Lewis. That would be something to watch for years to come…

Things to get the Chiefs back on the winning side of football:

1. Haley resign as offensive coordinator or do the following;
a. Feed JC more
b. Take the cuffs off of Cassel and let him air it out
2. Fire Clancy "Calls" Playslikeass

by kcchiefsfan72 on May 12, 2010 11:27 AM CDT up reply actions

I approve of Cherry approving of Berry.

Jamaal Charles...Enough said.

by Chiefsfan85 on May 11, 2010 9:28 PM CDT reply actions

I'm calling Shenannigans

deron cherry was very good, but johnny robinson was the best S for the chiefs

by irishking44 on May 11, 2010 10:34 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs

Major Rec!

I loved Deron and I can still vividly recall his first INT. But Johnny Robinson will always be THE free safety for KC. When kids would play football in the backyard there was more competition to be Johnny Robinson than Len Dawson or Otis Taylor. Johnny was a big play safety and always seemed to make big picks at key moments. Great player. I hope Berry and the other young DBs learn from Emmit what kind of defensive backfield tradition KC has for them to try and live up to.

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There's no use in being a damn fool about it." ---W.C. Fields

by Big Chief on May 11, 2010 10:44 PM CDT up reply actions

Shanannigans, SHANANNIGANS

Can we be the AFC West Champions in 2010. You better believe it
The Chiefs offence will EXPLODE in 2010

by trentchiefsfan on May 12, 2010 12:39 AM CDT up reply actions

Deron Cherry reminds me of the Chiefs Hayday!

This guy jst flat out brought the funk everytime there was 2 feet of space it seemed. I’m dreaming Flowers and Berry are the Cherry and Lewis updated REMIX!

by Chiefsareback2010 on May 11, 2010 11:09 PM CDT reply actions

Cherry is da Man!

best db we had in that era

"The receivers are an integral part of the passing game." - Hank Stram

by kcfansinceakid on May 12, 2010 1:04 AM CDT reply actions

Until Vermiel came and ruined things on D, the Chiefs ALWAYS had a great secondary. Even through the lean years, the one unit that could be counted on to be top notch were the back 4. Hopefully we’re getting back to that.

by dablueguy on May 12, 2010 2:46 PM CDT reply actions